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Timesnatch
Robert Swindells
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Description for Timesnatch
Paperback. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFB; YXZG. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
Once a creature is extinct, it's gone for ever, isn't it?
Not any more - as a butterfly from the past proves. The physicist mother of Kizzy Rye and Fraser Rye has invented an amazing time machine that can travel back into the past, snatch a plant or animal now extinct and bring it back into the present.
It's a wonderful achievement, a real scientific breakthrough. But the machine - 'Rye's Apparatus' - has a horrifying potential. Suddenly Kizzy and Fraser find themselves caught up in a terrifying spiral of events - events that lead finally to a monstrous demand from a sinister and violent organization...
WINNER OF THE 1995 EARTHWORM AWARD, 7-11 YEAR-OLD CATEGORY
Product Details
Publisher
Random House Children's Publishers UK United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552555920
SKU
V9780552555920
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Robert Swindells
ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer. RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005. 'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH
Reviews for Timesnatch
Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph
The Sunday Times
A fast-moving, readable thriller which will provoke considerable questioning and thought
Books for Keeps
Spellbinding plot . . . an unstoppable pace . . . a stirring achievement, certain to absorb and provoke a wide audience
TES
Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page
Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday Times
A fast-moving, readable thriller which will provoke considerable questioning and thought
Books for Keeps
Spellbinding plot . . . an unstoppable pace . . . a stirring achievement, certain to absorb and provoke a wide audience
TES
Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page
Sunday Telegraph